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Single tickets to the 2015 Virginia Arts festival have gone on sale. The annual spring event will take place April 10 through May 30 in venues from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach. The opening week includes performances by Ballet Hispanico on April 10 and singer Roseanne Cash on April 11, both at the Roper Performing Arts Center in downtown Norfolk. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will bring two shows April 12 to the Attucks Theatre in Norfolk. Other April highlights include Bartok's opera, "Bluebeard's Castle," with sets by glass artist Dale Chihuly, on April 18-19 in Norfolk's Chrysler Hall, and a family favorite, the...

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Single tickets to the 2015 Virginia Arts festival have gone on sale.
The annual spring event will take place April 10 through May 30 in venues from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach.
The opening week includes performances by Ballet Hispanico on April 10...

If you ever wanted to look the most indispensable Founding Father in the eye, this might be a good time.
With the recent acquisition of an iconic Gilbert Stuart portrait — plus the timely loan of a much earlier landmark likeness — Colonial Williamsburg...

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Black History Month is a celebration of African-American history and culture. This year, the Daily Press is presenting a Black History Primer with the information you need to know about African-American history in four Peninsula localities. Each Sunday in...

Pop stars Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., along with musical tributes to Billy Joel and Frank Sinatra, highlight the Virginia Symphony Pops 2015-2016 season.
The entire series will take place over five weekends, with four of the five concerts to be...

When curator Vanessa Thaxton-Ward began putting together a new exhibit marking the 100th birthday of the late African-American artist Elizabeth Catlett, she knew it would be a good chance for the Hampton University Museum to flex some muscle.
Since...

NEWPORT NEWS — Carol Capó, former opinion editor at the Daily Press and director of the Newport News Public Art Foundation, died Thursday following a lengthy illness with lung cancer. She was 66.
Daily Press Publisher Digby Solomon cited her wit...

Young cellist Sterling Elliott of Newport News grabbed some national attention last month as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Last year, Elliott won the Sphinx Competition, a national contest open to young African-American and Latino string players....

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JoAnn Falletta was born in Brooklyn and schooled in Manhattan, at Mannes...

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Farewell to a friendCarol Capo was a woman with strong opinions and a talent for expressing them in ways that could convince, provoke, clarify and educate. For 10 years she served on the Daily Press Editorial Board, first giving voice to the...

Where would you say the local arts scene lives in Hampton Roads?
"There's a lot of stuff going on in the Hampton Roads area that the mainstream of Hampton Roads doesn't know about. It's pocketed," said artist Asa Jackson, 26, of Newport News....

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Time is no object in this far-sighted realm, where even new work is likely to have one foot planted...

York County School Superintendent Victor Shandor told the School Board Monday that the division needs to hire four additional teachers next year based on an estimated 250 additional students.More teachers are needed to keep within the division's strategic...

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First Presbyterian Church in Hampton will present its annual Young Performing Artists Competition in March 2015.
This will be the 28th year the church has sponsored this important opportunity for young musicians to polish their recital skills and compete...